Sixers fined $100,000 for violating injury reporting rules leading up to Joel Embiid’s return

The NBA has fined the Philadelphia 76ers $100,000 for a way they dealt with Joel Embiid’s return to the court docket, the league introduced Friday. The official press launch, included under in full, notes that the heftiness of the high quality is a results of the Sixers’ historical past of violating league guidelines pertaining to harm reporting. 

The NBA introduced at present that the Philadelphia 76ers have been fined $100,000 for violating league harm reporting guidelines. 

The 76ers didn’t precisely disclose the sport availability standing of Joel Embiid previous to their sport in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on April 2.  Embiid was listed as “Out” in Philadelphia’s preliminary harm report and subsequently performed within the sport.  The high quality takes under consideration the 76ers’ prior historical past of fines for violating harm reporting guidelines.

Main as much as Philadelphia’s sport in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Tuesday, a number of experiences indicated that Embiid may very well be out there to play for the primary time since Jan. 30. Embiid had surgical procedure to deal with an injured meniscus in his left knee in February. 

Embiid, nonetheless, was not current on the Sixers’ morning shootaround. As the sport approached, the Sixers continued to checklist him as out, simply as they’d for greater than two months, all the way in which as much as the 5:30 p.m. ET harm report.

At 5:49 p.m., the team announced that Embiid’s standing had been upgraded to questionable. 5 minutes later, ESPN’s Adrian Wonarowski reported that Embiid was anticipated to play. The information solely turned official when Philadelphia submitted its beginning lineup half-hour earlier than tipoff, as each crew is required to do.

As for the Sixers’ “prior historical past” of such violations:

• On Feb. 1, the NBA fined them $75,000 for not reporting Embiid’s knee soreness earlier than he was a late scratch in a nationally televised sport in opposition to the Denver Nuggets.
• On Might 7, 2022, the NBA fined them $50,000 for a scenario that resembled Tuesday’s. Embiid had missed the primary two video games their sequence in opposition to the Miami Warmth, they usually “didn’t disclose” his standing “in an correct and well timed method” earlier than he returned in Sport 3.
• On Jan. 11, 2021, the NBA fined them $25,000 for sitting Ben Simmons on the final minute in opposition to the Nuggets attributable to what then-coach Doc Rivers described as knee stiffness after not together with him on the harm report main as much as the sport.